Called Mechanic Matt. They found my car parts. "We're gonna start on it this afternoon. So in the next day or so..."

Mechanic Matt, in the grand Midwestern tradition, does not finish sentences. I'm hoping this means it's because his brain is all full up with car knowledgement. So in the next day or so, elephants will be in the park across the street. In the next day or so, I'm leaving for Arizona. In the next day or so, the saucers are landing.

(One of my co-workers somehow speaks without beginning sentences. "...in the storeroom." Asking for clarification does not help. "I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the thing I'm making up as an excuse. Could you repeat that?" gets you a slightly louder "...in the storeroom." "Oh.")

The local busses, by the way, now have a vending system that gives paper change. You give the busbot two singles, and it ejects a paper card good for 25 cents on your next ride. It also has a Suicide Booth computer voice that announces when the bus passes a time point: "Thirty-third and L streets. You are now dead. Printing receipt."

book: More if You've Got It; iD; Little Dorrit; America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't; Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes; Death comes to the Archbishop; Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted; The Book of Ice; To Be or Not to Be; Area 51

comics:Captain Marvel; Genshiken; Sailor Moon; Yotsuba!&

teevee: A Touch of Cloth 2

dvd:The World's End; This Hour Has 22 Minutes; Futurama; The Avengers; John Dies at the End